I have an EMC which I didn't setup, but its in a raid 5 with 8 disks. 1 disk failed, and we had a spare disk still new shrink wrapped. I removed the bad drive, inserted the new one, and arrow went from orange to blue, blinked for a little bit, then back to yellow.
Looking on screen refreshing throughout, the disk got recognized, said 'transitioning', then the status was removed.
So I read this thread http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/storage/f/3412/p/19466778/20185947.aspx#20185947 which talked about 'specific' disks, but think this is not the case as they had a spare one. I am not in my co-lo right now to give the new one (it is installed right now but showing removed). That above thread mentions a part # starting with 005 or 004, but looking at the existing drive I don't see that. The drive that failed is;
Seagate Barracuda ES 750G
Part: 9BL148-090
I plugged that drive into an external, looked via FDISK and there are no partitions. I don't know how the navisphere works, but can I simply try to create a partition, format it (do a disk check) and then just re-instert? If so, what is the partition type?
On the same question, is there anything I can do via the navisphere express software remotely, to try and format that disk, etc as were now running without a safety net.
Thanks for all read/replies.